Case Study - the Scalloway Harbour
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
THE ENERGY ISSUE WITH HARBOURS - CASE STUDY - THE SCALLOWAY HARBOUR E-Harbours towards sustainable, clean and energetic innovative harbour cities in the North Sea Region ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This report acknowledges the support and input of many experts. We thank all those who have provided input and contributions and helped to shape the document. Thanks also to The Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme for supporting this project. GLOSSARY 2 CO2 Carbon Dioxide Gas m Square meter kWh kilowatt hours of energy l liter MWh Megawatt hours of energy NSR North Sea Regions (1MWh = 1000kWh) EU European Union GWh Gigawatt hours of energy (1GWh = 1000MWh) t Metric Tonne Page 2 of 18 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report has been carried out as part of a pan This document describes the Scalloway Harbour European project called E-Harbours, E-Logistics Showcase; a harbour located in the Shetland in NSR Harbour Cities, awarded by the Interreg Islands. This Showcase is one of the seven (07) IVB North Sea Region Programme. E-harbour project showcases. A description of the Scalloway Harbour main activities is In this report, an overview of the energy issue documented and the different organisations found in harbours in general, and in small to operating in and within the harbour medium harbours in particular, is discussed. summarised. KEY FINDINGS Scalloway Harbour is a key showcase in the Heating and cooling is one of the major E-Harbour project. expenditures within a harbour. Scalloway harbour displays a variety of Currently there is no widely recognised businesses and that a harbour can be policy or European-wide agreement on considered as clusters of organisations greening harbours. feeding one another. Harbours are energy intensive nodal points and highly dependent on energy for survival. Page 3 of 18 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgement ..................................................................................................... 2 Glossary ..................................................................................................................... 2 Executive Summary .................................................................................................... 3 Key findings ...................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 5 Aims ........................................................................................................................... 6 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 6 What is The Energy problem in Harbours and Harbour cities? ..................................... 7 Scalloway Harbour ..................................................................................................... 9 Entities within Scalloway Harbour .................................................................................... 10 Scalloway Harbour office .................................................................................................. 11 Scottish Sea FarmS ........................................................................................................... 12 Skretting .......................................................................................................................... 13 Net ServiceS Shetland ....................................................................................................... 14 Hunter Fish ...................................................................................................................... 15 QA Fish ............................................................................................................................ 16 LHD Ice factory ................................................................................................................. 16 Disclaimer ................................................................................................................ 18 Page 4 of 18 INTRODUCTION Harbours are widely recognised as an showcase intends to devise a better important, if not a key engine of any country’s understanding of the operation of a small or island’s economy. North Europe hosts some harbour setup and how this can lead to the of the largest harbours in the world, which introduction of novel energy policies across the allows the supply of countries and cities in and North Sea Region (NSR). The ultimate goal of around the European Continent. At the same the Showcase is to devise, test and disseminate time, Europe as a whole, hosts thousands of a data monitoring strategy as applied to small to medium harbours, which face similar Scalloway Harbour so that, in the future, the challenges to their counterpart large scale findings can be applied to other harbours of harbour operations. similar size, but also large scale harbours at European level and beyond. The North Sea based Harbour cities are subjected to an unprecedented level of Through this report, harbour masters, harbour difficulties arising from many different horizons owners, harbour policy makers and harbour including a record vessel traffic, rise in energy business organisations will be able to learn what needs, sharp increase in energy costs and the different types of organisations can be intense worldwide pressure on reduction in found in a small harbour set up. This will pollution and emissions. All of these pressures support them to identify their key future mean that harbours are now being targeted by harbour policies. many to find new and effective solutions to lead to better, more effective and sustainable This report is therefore divided into three (03) harbours. sections. The first section of the report provides the aims and objectives of the Showcase. The This report aims to provide and disseminate the second section describes the different energy overall NSR located harbour energy issue with a issue as found in a harbour setup. The third and particular overview of the Scalloway Harbour final section describes the Scalloway Harbour Showcase, which is one of seven (07) showcases with its different organisations and operation. of the E-harbour project. The objective of this showcase is unique as it will have a long lasting impact on the wider harbour community. This Page 5 of 18 AIMS The E-harbours Project as a whole aims to This documents aims at providing an idea as to create a lasting change towards sustainable what type of facilities can be found in a small to energy logistics for North Sea Region harbour medium harbour set up, by summarising each cities. It aims at setting innovative energy entity located at Scalloway. standards to create a transformation of the energy network in harbour areas. The summary of the different facilities, as found in this report, can then be used by decisions This report intends to briefly describe the makers to develop future harbour’s policies for energy issue facing harbours in the North Sea small to medium harbours (and in many cases Region (NSR). More specifically this report extrapolate the policies to larger harbours). describes one of the Shetland Islands’ most well known harbours: Scalloway Harbour. OBJECTIVES After reading this report, the reader should be 2. Have a clearer understanding of the able to: different types of organisations available in a small to medium harbours. 1. Understand the major challenges/problems/ difficulties for harbour cities in terms of 3. Understand which types of organisations energy consumption and environmental uses substantial energy and the reasons impact. why. 4. Have a clear overview of the Scalloway Harbour activities. Page 6 of 18 WHAT IS THE ENERGY PROBLEM IN HARBOURS AND HARBOUR CITIES? The Kyoto protocol was undersigned by a large clearly a problem for harbour based number of countries to significantly reduce CO2 organisations as, if the energy costs continue to emissions compared to 1990 levels. Since then, rise, could put these organisations out of European Union’s have published targets to cut business. CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020 (compared with 1990 levels) and to increase electrical capacity To this end, it is obvious that the use of energy from renewable energy to 20%. in the harbour cities can be very intense, and in many instances energy efficiency measures Some NSR countries like Norway, Denmark and remain low due to the use of ‘inefficient’ Scotland have already overwhelmed other EU industrial machineries. In addition, though the countries and have set new targets for 2020. For Government’s renewable targets have been instance, Scottish targets for electrical clearly stated, the share of renewable energy generation is to have a record 100% of sources in a harbour set up is still very low. electricity consumption from renewables by 20201. Therefore, one can conclude that some of the main issues in a harbour are four fold: (a) The harbour areas of the NSR are critical nodal economic (the energy costs are too high and points supporting international transport continue to rise), (b) machines are in many networks, and preferred locations for a wide cases not efficient (older machines not being variety of industries. These areas transport and replaced often), (c) CO2 emissions, as well as transfer large amounts of commodities, other greenhouse gases, are excessive (high including energy related products like coal and consumption means high emissions), and (d) oil, and play a central